rancid
adj/ˈɹænsɪd/
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin ranceō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin ranciduslbor. English rancid Learned borrowing from Latin rancidus (“stinking, rank, rancid, offensive”).
Definitions
Rank in taste or smell.
- The house was deserted, with a rancid half-eaten meal still on the dinner table.
Offensive. Unpleasant.
- Her remarks were rancid; everyone got up and left.
The neighborhood
- neighborrancidification
- neighborrancidly
- neighborrancidness
- neighborrancor
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for rancid. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA